Adjustable cuff-holder



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C. H. MURRAY.

ADJUSTABLE CUFF HOLDER.

No. 368,350. Patented Aug. 16, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. MURRAY, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

ADJUSTABLE CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 368,350, dated August 16, 1887.

Application filed June 13, 1887. Serial No. 241,218.

To aZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. hIURRAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Denver, in the county of Arapahoe and State of Colorado, have invented new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Cuff-Holders, of which the following is such a detailed description as will enable any one skilled in the art to make and use the same.

In this specification and accompanying drawings like letters indicate similar parts throughout.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a rep resentation of a sheet-metal blank as cut out ready for forming. Fig. 2 is a downward or top view of the same after being bent into shape. Fig. 3 is an end view of the back end of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a side edge view of the shaft a after being bent into shape. Fig. 5 is a view of the cuff-holder as applied and in use on a cuff and sleeve.

The elastic metal-plate blank, Fig. 1, consists of the shaft part a, a base part, c, and a projecting finger-catch, e, on the base part. The front end of the shaft (6 is shortened by being turned backward upon itself, as shown at n in Fig. 4, thus forming a hook that, being passed through the cuff-button holes, presses the two edges of the cuff firmly together. It is found that the backward inclination of the hook as it passes through the button-holes is an improvement over a button-shank that stands at right angles to the shaft of the holder, as this form prevents the cuff from springing open, while the downward-inclined nose of the shaft, bearing upon the cuff, acts as a lever to retain it rigidly in place.

The base part of the metal blank (indicated by c in Fig. 1) is turned over upon itself until (No me del.)

shown in the end view in Fig. 3. This is done v in such a way that the metal plate operates as a spring to clamp its two ends and make a grip on the edge of the sleeve-slit to hold the cuff in position. To cause the holder to release its grip, there is a push-button, m, supplied with a shaft that is riveted or made fast to the lower half of the clamp, but which passes and works freely through the upper half. Theresiliency of the metal plate is sufficient to keep its closing ends firmly together without any addi tional appliance.

By catching the finger-hold c and pressing the thumb on the button in the cuff-holder springs open and the cuff can be readily removed or set forward or back upon the sleeve, and when the catch is released the holder will remain fast wherever placed.

I am aware that appliances for the same purpose have been previously made from a single piece of metal bent upon itself. I do not claim as original that item in this invention; but

N hat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In an adjustable euff-holder, the holdingclamp 0, provided with the finger-catch c and the push-button m, in combination with the shaft a, terminating in the hook at, all substantially as shown and set forth.

2. The metallic cuff-holder blank shown and described, consisting of the shaft part a, the base part c, and the projecting part c, all as specified, and for the purposes set forth.

ED. D. Rusr, SAMUEL S. Davrnsou. 

